Trouble has reared its ugly head again following the one nil over Sunderland at the London Stadium this evening.
The game was incident free with no problems within the London Stadium either during the match or within the Stadium concourse areas. Trouble only flared outside the stadium as away supporters waited to board their many coaches.
Despite a heavy police presence including mounted police a mob of Sunderland fans ran up a grass bank to attack West Ham fans walking along the Greenway to Pudding Mill Lane DLR station. Several punches were traded involving a small number of supporters and a metal crowd barrier was thrown at police by visiting fans at one stage. The police quickly brought the situation under control but the episode will further highlight the challenge the police will have on Wednesday to police the West Ham v Chelsea EFL cup evening game over such a wide geographical area.
It appears a small minority come to the London Stadium wanting to prove something and intent on causing trouble.
There needs to be better segregation outside the stadium – to see all of those coaches parked up where they were gave me cause for concern. Whether it be keeping them inside at the end, or implementing a proper segregated route to their coaches.
Nice happy note to leave the day on. My old mum used to say if you ain’t got nothing good to say then don’t say nothing. So on this occasion I won’t say anything. Except for those of us that were supporters All through the bad old days of hooliganism this seems a lot of hoo ha about nothing. God bless the mobile phone. How else would we be able to highlight all of these small minor incidents and blow them out of all proportion in the media in their continued campaign against the Olympic stadium.
Couldn’t put it better meself.
I second what slaven a laugh said,it’s an ado about nothing.
Sean this is not headline news and it’s just more ammunition for the press to have a go at our new stadium.
Can’t brush it under the carpet and pretend it doesn’t happen. The route to Pudding Mill Lane DLR is flash point. It needs to be tackled and quickly before Chelsea on Wednesday. Someone will get seriously hurt. It is NOT a club issue but a Stadium operator and police issue to resolve.
I was with my nine year old son yesterday, we use that route to avoid the crowds at Stratford but I will think twice when he is with me.
Unfortunately c&h are part of the problem, by reporting on these incidents they perpetuate the medias obsession with us, I note other West Ham blogs don’t find it necessary to report on these types of non events
Absolutely,if most people saw the clip without the article it would look like nothing.Seen more serious trouble on a school playground !
I use the Pudding Mill Lane station to get in and out (it’s a doddle) but deffo somewhere you could see it going off proper
There were Sunderland fans scrapping last season after the match at The Boleyn.I dont seem to remember it being worthy of an article last season though.
It has happened hundreds of times at the old ground.It aint something new but if anyone even farts at the LS it is worthy of media coverage..just saying.
No fans on some other blogs just moan about everything else to do with the club lmao
I agree with Stan. No different to what happened outside the Boleyn for 30 years. Everything slightly negative about the LS is being blown up out of proportion. time we accepted it, faults nd all, and just got on with making it home. After all, there is twice as many of us at home games now. Can’t be bad.
Let me make something clear. Other sites can do as they wish – we are a news site and if ,as a lifelog and totally committed fan, Sean decides to report this on behalf of those accompanied by children or merely as a public service that’s what we are all about. We also took the club to task over Premieum ticket lines which are now going to be halted in one form or another as a result, something I see nobody comment on. We have a straightforard news reporting policy and will continue with that. If that isn’t to people’s taste there we are but we won’t be changing..
Great work regarding the premium rate numbers…. but I still believe articles proclaiming “Trouble outside the London Stadium again” does harm. Put 50,000+ people together and there will always be the odd scuffle, reporting on every single occasion no matter how trivial doesn’t in my opinion do us any favours.
Sean’s given his reasons and me mine – we’ll leave it there
Like some have said, hold the away supporters in the ground, at least in this instance although unwelcome its the other fans that are too blame if the reports are accurate. I was over the other side of the stadium yesterday block 203, watched the whole match took an eternity to get to the station and some fans were hastling the stop go people, jostling them etc which is not acceptable especially when the chief protagonists looked like they were in their 40’s and 50’s and that was after a win. There are a minority of idiots in every club that don’t have a single bit of common sense or just go to games with an attitude that causing aggro is their right, in this article is the away support and seems like a storm in a tea cup, I am at the Chelsea match Wednesday and I heard quite a few supporters from my neck of the woods saying they heard that the Chelsea lot are going to be turning up at Hackney Wick to kick off before the game, its only hearsay so no idea of the validity of the claims but if that does happen with the amount of cc tv footage around I don’t see why we shouldn’t be able to kick these idiots out of football forever, why clubs don’t have photocard id’s I don’t know would certainly make grounds inside at least a lot safer.
Thanks 32 – Ill pass the hearsay on – can’t be too careful
I heard Millwall will be joining them…
It couldnt have been that exciting the press aint all over it for a change lool
I would offer my opinion on the subject but i expect our friendly moderators would only delete what i said about Chelski supporters lol 🙂
The moderators are here to stay ge used to it mate.
Calm down Hugh. There is a subtle but clear difference between folks having a laugh, like Rads, and some of the nastier stuff written here and you and yours seem to be struggling to see the difference.
I know the difference between the well love word ‘banter’ and unpleasantness Jmbo and it is not necessarily subtle. We work hard here from 9-9 and beyond every day. We will make some decisions you won’t like but I’m not gonna come in here and see the arse torn out of them for days after. There have to be boundaries and there have been some coming in here to troll and for no other reason. We will stop that.
I would guess that this route will not be the way to go to avoid the crowds now that it’s been so well advertised. my fear is the wrong type of non football supporter might also now think it’s a good place to go.